Nintendo Getting New Digs To Make Games

Starting January 1, 2012, groundbreaking will commence on a new Nintendo R&D centre in Kyoto. Nintendo is pouring over $US15 million into the new facility that will house over 1500 employees.

The site is adjacent to Nintendo's current headquarters (pictured) and previously housed a golf centre, which Nintendo had bulldozed in 2008. The goal is to bring Nintendo HQ and its development arm, which are currently separated, closer together.

The new R&D centre will be a seven-storey structure, with a basement, a meeting room and a dinning hall, which is on the top floor. The building is slated to be finished in December 2013.

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.